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    Best "Muffin Top" exercise

    Posts: 155 Member
    edited January 25 in Fitness and Exercise
    I know it's technically not called a muffin top but what are some of the exercise you do to tone and tighten that area? I have been looking for more area specific exercises to do.

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    • Posts: 15,694 Member
      You can't spot reduce. The only thing you can do to get rid of the fat on your midsection is to keep losing weight and/or reducing your body fat percentage.

      Core exercises will strengthen your muscles *under* the fat, which will make your midsection look good when you lose the fat. But, they won't burn the fat away themselves.

      Moderate calorie deficit, exercise (strength training and some cardio, if you want), patience and time.
    • Posts: 125 Member
      Simple!
      Step one: Go to a store.
      Step two: Buy a larger pair of pants.
      Step three: Eat at a reasonable deficit. Cardio and lift heavy.
    • Posts: 985 Member
      Simple!
      Step one: Go to a store.
      Step two: Buy a larger pair of pants.
      Step three: Eat at a reasonable deficit. Cardio and lift heavy.

      :laugh:
    • Posts: 220
      I call it the shaking your head exercise...

      You shake your head left and right whenever offered food. do this for months on end and that muffin top will be gone!
    • Posts: 365 Member
      That would be any exercise!
    • Posts: 2,747 Member
      Sex. Lots and lots of sex.
    • Posts: 1,084 Member
      Yes you can't spot reduce but I'll give you some oblique exercises that will spot tone :)

      http://fitbie.msn.com/get-fit/exercises-lose-your-muffin-top

      http://www.shape.com/fitness/workouts/shrink-your-muffin-top-fat-blasting-workout

      http://www.self.com/blogs/flash/2012/03/moves-to-melt-away-muffin-top.html

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVWZAjHM328
    • Posts: 6,997 Member
      Oh, the muffin top.
    • Posts: 49,282 Member
      Moderate calorie deficit and the patience exercise.

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    • Posts: 2,756 Member
      Sex. Lots and lots of sex.

      best answer of the thread.
    • Posts: 3,569 Member
      ... spot toning?
    • Posts: 61,406 Member
      Sex. Lots and lots of sex.

      IN
    • Posts: 2,780 Member
      Sex. Lots and lots of sex.

      They don't call it "love handles for nothin'.
    • Posts: 4,603 Member
      ... spot toning?

      I'm hoping that she means simply to strengthen the ab muscle with isolation ab exercises...
    • Posts: 12,950 Member
      I know it's technically not called a muffin top but what are some of the exercise you do to tone and tighten that area? I have been looking for more area specific exercises to do.

      I call it the reverse curl. You take a piece of food and curl it away from your mouth. Repeat until muffin top is gone.
    • Posts: 1,501 Member
      The only spot reduction is lipo. You can always make a small incision in your abdomen and attach a industrial powered vacuum cleaner to the port of entry
    • Posts: 2,675 Member
      Calorie Deficit...

      That being said, if you want to work your abdominals (which will help tighten the muscles beneath the remaining fat above the belt-line) you can:
      1. Sit ups
      2. Crunches
      3. Crunch machine
      4. leg lifts
      5. Planks
      6. Inverted sit ups
    • Posts: 12,950 Member
      Or you could do squats and deads bro.
    • Posts: 1,946 Member
      You can't spot reduce. The only thing you can do to get rid of the fat on your midsection is to keep losing weight and/or reducing your body fat percentage.

      Core exercises will strengthen your muscles *under* the fat, which will make your midsection look good when you lose the fat. But, they won't burn the fat away themselves.

      Moderate calorie deficit, exercise (strength training and some cardio, if you want), patience and time.

      Correct!
    • Posts: 141 Member
      Sex. Lots and lots of sex.

      Unfortunately, in many cases, there's an inverse relationship between the size of your love handles and the amount of sex you get... but since the OP is female, it should be much easier to acquire said sex :-P
    • Posts: 155 Member
      Yes you can't spot reduce but I'll give you some oblique exercises that will spot tone :)

      http://fitbie.msn.com/get-fit/exercises-lose-your-muffin-top

      http://www.shape.com/fitness/workouts/shrink-your-muffin-top-fat-blasting-workout

      http://www.self.com/blogs/flash/2012/03/moves-to-melt-away-muffin-top.html

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVWZAjHM328

      This is great, Thanks!
    • Posts: 155 Member
      Calorie Deficit...

      That being said, if you want to work your abdominals (which will help tighten the muscles beneath the remaining fat above the belt-line) you can:
      1. Sit ups
      2. Crunches
      3. Crunch machine
      4. leg lifts
      5. Planks
      6. Inverted sit ups

      Thank you! I'm going to add some of these to my workouts!
    • Posts: 16,356 Member
      The one where you exercise control over your caloric intake. You can't spot reduce and the 'muffin top' is a fat deposit. If you do exercises that build up muscle in that area, it's just going to be under the fat that is still there, thus not taking care of the problem you want to eliminate.

      Fat is stored energy.

      Food is potential energy.

      You need to consume less energy (food) so that your body uses your stored energy (fat) and then your muffin top will go away.
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